health - "national hiv"

Hiv infection rates among gay men in many parts of Asia are as severe as those which devastated US homosexual communities in the late 1980s, top officials of the UNAIDS agency said here Tuesday.

Drugs to suppress the hiv virus and prevent full-blown Aids have been rolled out in Africa and Asia and 3 million people are now surviving who would have died.

Sponsored by the California Mentor Foundation and MENTOR, the 2008 national Mentor Summit will be held Sept. 18-19 at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif.

New research from over 223,000 patients published in the Primary Care Cardiovascular Journal 1, suggests that total cholesterol levels in statin-treated UK patients are higher than that of the general ...

New York - The unrelenting global struggle against the AIDS epidemic has made significant gains, reflected in the decline in the number of infection and AIDS-related deaths, a new study on HIV/AIDS said Tuesday. In countries with large numbers of peo...

There have been significant gains in preventing new hiv infections in a number of heavily-affected countries, a UNAids report says.

Using laboratory and mouse models of human breast cancer, researchers have found that a small molecule capable of targeting specific proteins on the surface of breast cancer cells can inhibit the growth of breast cancer cells that migrate to the brain. The small molecule used in the studies was the drug lapatinib (Tykerb), which disrupts an important breast cancer metabolic process called the Her2/neu signaling pathway. Lapatinib inhibits the activation of growth signaling proteins and their signaling pathways as well as cell migration and proliferation. Using the mouse model, the drug reduced the number of brain lesions that resulted from the injection of human cells. The study, which appeared online July 29, 2008, in the 'Journal of the national Cancer Institute,' was conducted by researchers at the national Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the national Institutes of health (NIH).

The national Institute for health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has published a short clinical guideline on appropriate prescribing of antibiotics for respiratory tract infections (RTIs) in adults and children in primary care.

A six-week extended course of the antiretroviral drug nevirapine did not clearly show a reduced risk of mother-to-child hiv transmission among breastfed infants, according to a study published Saturday in the journal Lancet, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, breastfeeding 'presents a life-and-death dilemma' for hiv-positive mothers in developing countries.read more

Kenya's hiv and Aids prevalence rate has increased to nearly eight per cent, according to a new study to be released TuesdayJust when Kenyans were beginning to celebrate last year's announcement that the prevalence rate had dropped to 5.1 per cent, the government is expected to announce that the rate is actually higher.Based on a new study conducted last year, the findings show hiv prevalence to be higher than last year's 5.1 per cent and the 6.7 per cent captured by a 2003 Kenya Demographic and health Survey.read more